Arna Bontemps

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Arna Bontemps was a prolific writer of African American histories, biographies, and children’s books, as well as an editor and anthologist. His best known adult novel is Black Thunder (1936). He and Countée Cullen adapted Bontemps’s first novel, God Sends Sunday (1931), as a Broadway musical, St. Louis Woman (pr. 1946). His poetry collection, Personals, appeared in 1963.

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See Also:

• Black Thunder (African American Literature)
• Black Thunder (Masterplots Classics)
• Black Thunder (Character Profiles)
• Black Thunder (Identities and Issues)
• Black Thunder (Literary Places)
• Free at Last (Juvenile Literature)
• Great Slave Narratives (Identities and Issues)
• Summer Tragedy, A (Short Stories)
• We Have Tomorrow (Juvenile Literature)
• African American Long Fiction (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)